Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-02
TERRITORIAL TIDINGS.

Anaconda young folks are thinking o
organizing a toboggan slide. -...
There is a report that the late lamentef
Stevensville paper will be revived.
The County Commissioners of Deer Lodg,
County will meet one week from to-mor
row. *.: --.-s. .....
Considerable loss of stock is reported n
the Deer Lodge Valley in the last two
s.esks.~2 ' -
Location work is being done on the
Philipsburg & Drummoad Railroad. Work
is necessarily slow, on account OF the deer
snow. "'"
The bill granting the right of way for the
Rocky Forks q Cooke City Railroad
through the Crow reservation, has passed
the Senate.
The statement is made, that l. G. Baker
of Fort Benton, viii be appointed Railroad
Commissioner for Northwest Dakota.
Nothing definite in regard to the matter
can be learned.
D. C. Corbin, who recently purchased the
Ceur d'Alene Railway & Navigation Com
pany will probably take possession Of the
property March l, 1887. No change will
be made at present in the management Of
the road. ar.,..as -,
The River Press says: The Block p. line
of steamboats, will commence operations
the coming spring with nine steamboats,,
w: Benton, Helena. Rosebud. Bachelor,
Eclipse, Judith, Terry, Tompkins and
Missouri. Tie latter is a recent purchase
and is not unknown to the part of Fort
Benton. She was formerly the Minnie H.
and was here under that namei in 1879 or
1880, and later as the Missouri two years
ago the coming summer. She is a small
boat and her upper works will be cut down,
leaving only cabin room for the accommo.
dation of the officers. The boats are we'll
known and will be better operated than
formerly, and the service will be better aud
more complete than ever before. A large
amount of freight has already been com
tracted for. The coming a the SER
vice will be from Sioux City to Bismarck.
Fort Shaw has been abandoned as d sig
nal station. "'
:, The chinook is reported as general all
over the Territory.
Ex-Governor Hauser is still absent in
Washington and New York.
The citizens OF Missoula expect the
Manitoba railroad to run through their
town. .-.---. ~.
The,Helena Gas Company will make ex-
tensive improvements as soon as the
weather permits. H-.'+
1t is feared that the Cheyenne Indians
neal Miles City are about to give the au.
thorities and settlers trouble.
scab has made it's appearance in several
bands OF sheep near Lewiston, and it is
feared that the loss will be great.
Citizens of Townsend. and the Missouri
valley have petitioned the Legislature for
a new county to be called Missouria.
H. Clark & Co., of Billings, = wholesale
grocery house, has been closed on chattel
mortgages held in Chicago. It is understood
that their assets are far in excess OF their
liza bihties.
Now and then we get a mail, which is
really quite encouraging, when we think OF
the many places in Alaska, Siberia, or Cen
trail Africa where they don't get any mails.
Argus.
Hon. D. 8. Wade's term az Judge of the
District Court Of the Third Judicial Dis
trict, and Chief Justice Of the Montana
Supreme Court, expires to-day. His sue
as yet has not been appointed and
His Honor will continue to serve and pre-
side over the tribunal until replaced by an
appointee of the President. Judge Wade
the sixteenth year of service in the
ermine. and he steps down and out
to Join the franks of honored and respected
A co-partnefsbip is spoken of be-
tween him and Ex-Governor Carpenter, in
the practice OF the law in this city, as soot
he is released froh judicial duties.-In-